Pothook

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    An S-shaped iron hook used to suspend a cooking pot over a fire.
  2. 2
    an S-shaped hook to suspend a pot over a fire wordnet
  3. 3
    A crooked stroke in writing; a scrawl.

    "An indescribable character of faded gentility that attached to the house I sought, and made it unlike all the other houses in the street—though they were all built on one monotonous pattern, and looked like the early copies of a blundering boy who was learning to make houses, and had not yet got out of his cramped brick-and-mortar pothooks—reminded me still more of Mr. and Mrs. Micawber."

Etymology

From pot + hook.

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